Temporal Distortions in Shadesmar

[RabidReader]

Hi! I am kind of new to this, but I have a question that I don't think has been answered in any existing WoB.

 

Brandon has mentioned several times that some of his worldhopping characters are able to keep showing up in different periods across hundreds of years because of some sort of temporal compression in the cognitive realm. He has also talked about how distance in the cognitive realm is directly related to people thinking about the space. More minds equals more space. My theory is that the time compression effect is also the result of people's perceptions. Thoughts?

[Elegy he/him]

Don't know if there are other methods, but usually worldhoppers seem to use places with huge amounts of Investiture to make time pass faster:

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Questioner

I was just curious about how time works for worldhoppers.

Brandon Sanderson

So worldhoppers' time is going to pass normally unless they can stay near to large collections of Investiture. They can warp time in the same way that gravity, large masses, can warp time.

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[RabidReader]

8 minutes ago, Elegy said:

Don't know if there are other methods, but usually worldhoppers seem to use places with huge amounts of Investiture to make time pass faster:

 

Cool! Thanks! I guess I missed that one.

[+Oltux72 he/him]

We have Hoid in Oathbringer and in Bands of Mourning. There is at most 10 years between the books. If there is temporal compression, it has to be optional.